"Audit Trails Critical for Tracking Network Activity"

As the distribution and complexity of networks continue the grow, it is becoming more difficult for IT professionals to keep track of the events that occur on their networks. However, logging network activity remains essential in detecting, tracking, and responding to suspicious users and events. IT professionals are encouraged to use audit trails to collect detailed records containing information about network events and activities as their organizations move their networks and applications to hybrid cloud and multicloud computing environments.  Audit trails can help organizations discover the source of problems on their networks, thus increasing the speed at which they respond to and remediate them. This article continues to discuss the importance of audit trails, how audit trails can help IT professionals identify and address network vulnerabilities, as well as the use of forensic information gathered from an audit to identify threat actors. 

GCN reports "Audit Trails Critical for Tracking Network Activity"